From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 05:25:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12959 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from millennium.net (mrvid.demon.co.uk [194.222.140.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12938 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 05:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@mrvid.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by millennium.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA05501; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:34:39 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:34:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Lists X-Sender: lists@millennium.net To: Geoffrey Robinson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERL Compiler In-Reply-To: <34BD3BAE.B8C6A2FC@accessv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > Has anybody here tried the new PERL compiler? I downloaded it at > ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/perl/Compiler-a2.tar.gz and did my best to install it > but no luck. I'm not even sure weather or not you can run it on FreeBSD > (2.2.5 I have). Has anybody had any success? Let me know how you > got it working if you did. Thanks. I'm using it on 2.2.1 but unfortunately most of my perl coding involves sockets and they just coredump :( Seems the socket handling of the perl2c isn't very stable. Mind you, didn't have any problems installing it.. perl ./Makefile.pl make make install What errors (if any) are you getting? L8rz KrOnUs